i'll know i have a better understanding of thai culture when i understand what that's about and don't think of dirty, sexual things (like your local neighborhood pervy pedophile) whenever people say that to me. i can count more than a handful of times when parents have half-jokingly asked me if their child could sleep with me. it's as if by sleeping together, english will seep from my pores, leak into the bedding and get absorbed by the privileged thai child.
... i wonder if it would be unethical to agree and to demand a per hour fee?
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"pa-aw wants you to sleep with his daughter"
23 May 2008 at 7:01 PM
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I am a Peace Corps Volunteer serving as an English teacher in the south of Thailand. The random ramblings within this blog in no way represent the views of the Peace Corps, its affiliates or the United States Government. They're my random ramblings and mine alone. Mwahaha.
That said, I'm into taking lots of pictures, stand-up comedy, and in general, enjoying life (which may or may not sometimes involve traveling).
That said, I'm into taking lots of pictures, stand-up comedy, and in general, enjoying life (which may or may not sometimes involve traveling).
Quotes
Anais Nin:
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Jenny Kane, PCV 118. From "Recycle Love" article in Sticky Rice magazine:
"The relationships we create in the world, the love in essence that we put out in the world, on any particular day, is what life is about ... Love the pain, the tears, love the work of getting through each day. Love and, despite love, even, love again, and more."
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
"To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded."
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Jenny Kane, PCV 118. From "Recycle Love" article in Sticky Rice magazine:
"The relationships we create in the world, the love in essence that we put out in the world, on any particular day, is what life is about ... Love the pain, the tears, love the work of getting through each day. Love and, despite love, even, love again, and more."
Ralph Waldo Emerson:
"To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded."
1 comments:
11:39 PM
Your pores seep English?! I'm totally jealous... in this country mine only seem to be seeping sweat (and constantly at that).
I don't think accepting money would be terribly unethical except for the fact that you'd pretty much be an English language prostitute at that point (and too eerily mirroring the likes of Michael Jackson.) :-P
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